Report: Ex-Microsoft legal chief to head SF Giants

Bill Neukom, the lawyer who led Microsoft through the height of its antitrust problems, has been chosen as the new managing general partner of the San Francisco Giants baseball club, according to a report today by the San Francisco Chronicle.

Bill Neukom, pictured last year. (Joshua Trujillo/Seattle P-I)

Neukom, the current American Bar Association president and a partner at the K&L Gates law firm, was already a Giants investor. He worked at Microsoft for 17 years, in a career marked by high-profile legal disputes with Apple Computer, the U.S. Justice Department and others. Microsoft was ultimately able to reach a settlement with the U.S. government in the landmark antitrust case after a federal judge ordered the company broken in two.